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Honestly the only reason: Is because he controls media 100%.
The masses do not know otherwise. He shut down any media that disagrees with him or points out alternative viewpoints.
But, there is an opposition and it's small-but I'm watching very very closely. Most people are afraid to protest. But, there are more people aligned with the opposition than they know of including us in West.
That's why he killed that fellow in London with the poison tea that was radioactive. Putin's killed others as well many more.
Putin is the Russian mob TS. Started in St Petersburg. Fact.
Hell I'd open a manufacturing plant there. Look how cheap russian labor is? You can export out. You bring in western equipment, know how, can do and train the Russian workers and pay them.
They'll work their butts off.
TS- Putin has to cut a deal here's why.
1. Sanctions are targeting wealthy powerful friends of his.
2. Then it becomes a coup against him bc of it.
3. Billionaires losing $ creates powerful enemies.
4. Putin's getting paranoid bc he can't control sanctions.
5. Syrian adventure is to distract from economy + inflation.
6. He's going to end up in a Siberian prison.
7. Biggest thief in history of Russia stealing from Russians.
8. Russian people will be waking up soon enough.
9. Opposition will gain steam-ordinary Russians will wake up.
10.Russia can become a manufacturing country- get rid of Putin.
11. I predict a bold new politician will surface in Russia within 5 years that runs and wins and stamps out corruption amongst officials. Turns country back to the West and the world and becomes within 30 years a major economic powerhouse. But major changes in their thinking and among younger people must want it.
What do you think that kern lease is worth right about now?
What do you expect their crooks owned by Putin?
It's the peones of the world that troll message boards that are characters. I bet you pay your monthly fees just to make the world hears you right? Let me think...I own companies on two continents, 9 in California alone, shopping malls, oil and gas wells, agriculture, real estate and media others.
This is a hobby of electronic communication.
I can tell your one hell of a businessman.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't work for me.
Best of luck to you though.
You are spot on- they are liable. I covered early this am and up she rose and I flipped.
I've been shorting from the $32's and made over $7 million dollars on this.
I know the markets and history.
My short isn't going anywhere. If I let it up it's because I and my friends which we comprise the GO4 Gang of Four let it up.
Good luck to you as well. But I'm an expert at world politics and business.
My interests and contacts span the globe.
Russia is in big trouble financially and when inflation hits even more and Putin keeps steering the media coverage eventually normal Russians are going to dump him. Americans and the West does not hate Russian people or country. We just don't stand for tyranny and corruption and Putin is a corrupt to the bone Russian mob guy who has stolen 100's of billions of Russian assets. If Putin was in America trying to pull that crap he'd be lynched, shot and buried. He's a crook nothing more. They are going to wise up and realize Putin is the problem not the US or Western world.
You Russians need to wake up and give Putin the boot.
Here is where you don't understand who lifted up Russians standard of living. It wasn't Putin he had nothing to do with it.
It started years earlier with Gorbachev realizing USSR was screwed and took down the walls and making nice with the West.
Your history lesson needs to go back a few more years.
#1. Gorbachev dropped wall.
#2 Western capital funds came in way before Putin
#3 Russia O&G used our Western technology before Putin.
Putin had nothing to do with lifting Russian economics and raising standard of living.
It was Gorbachev and the Western Money and Tech know how that flowed in way before Putin.
Putting Putin up there saying he's the reason is not the reason but he sure takes credit doesn't he? Problem is people like you who don't know the real truth are backing a moron putting him on a pedestal.
That's why the sanctions were slapped on Russia and it was all taken away as fast as it came into your country.
See how that works for you guys now...the only reason Russia rebounded a little is because of the US and the Western world.
You get a little money and Putin starts acting like he's the biggest cock on the block well it's gone to his head and he's bitten off more than he can chew.
You'll see soon enough. Your inflation is already spiking and when you can't have access to Western goods and your paying more for cheap Russian sheet good luck to you guys. Even if that pipe is made your 6-8 years from making a dime from china.
Guess you haven't been paying attention but china reneged on the deal and hasn't paid Russia a dime of the $25 billion pre-paid for construction.
Nice try but Russia is a 2 bit 3rd world one trick pony.
I read it daily by 6 am- btw of course GAZ is going to release that PR what else do you think their going to say? It's not GAZ PR it's a Putin Propaganda and doesn't influence and carries no weight with me nor the worlds investment community. I'll continue to short until the the fat lady signs. But like I said being a businessman myself that pipeline wouldn't be built by GAZ they can't afford it. What does that tell you? They need Russian peoples money from the kremlin and that is like Exxon asking US Prez Obama hey can I borrow $100 billion or so. Give me a break please.
LOL where's JM the wunderkid from BevHills 90210? Where's the money? Where's all the alleged connections like the Mexican construction moguls?
As anyone can see this is deader than a Malibu coyote who got hit in the parking lot of Malibu's Cross Creek Habana parking lot after one too many shots of the worm.
I hang out among other places near my pad in malibu at Habanos- Cindy Crawfords and husbands Gerbers bar. Few weeks back "show me the money" was sitting in the chair next to me(which isn't the first time) at the main bar drinking. "Money" was in town who lives down the street from "yours truly" and texted wanting to know if muah wanted to meet for a cerveza and truth worm serum. Since my first Bu pad which I still own is only a few 2 doors from Crawfords first Bu pad hell it's just a big party at Habanos. If I boot myself out of there I cruise over to catch a flick or over to another local joint in the hood. But boy I sure miss Howies LOL omg.
BTW I drive when I get liquored up on a vespa no joke with my kraut helmet buzzing along. It's more innocuous and stands out less. Plus I don't have to give my buds a ride home along the 1 when I've had 1 too many which is at least once every week to 10 days. What's life if u can't really enjoy it.
Funny what a small place Malibu really really is. I told "Money" an "interesting story" about an alleged "fools gold" mine down in Mexico and the connection.
Show me the money marky mark. Perths looking real perty I imagine welcome to the US Mr. Asshley. I gave up on this a long time ago.
Ok it's so IMO obvious you possibly could be one of those people you just named from the company.
I suspected knew you were all along. Or your possibly an accredited trying to "muster up some fools on a message board" to "buy into" your garbage on here and have some free shares and trying to hustle people so you can make maybe $10 dollars on selling some shares here LOL.
Your wasting your time with every stroke of a keyboard unless of course you are getting paid a buck a post for absolute nonsense of which will never work here.
Are you done yet? Can you just get off the board please do us all a favor?
IMO Everytime you post this jibberish it loses even more credibility. The only thing that will make this rise is actually the company doing something and gets MM's involved to prop this up. Your wasting your time.
Just tell the boys to actually execute and then you don't have to come here anymore and try to "find some fools' to believe in you.
Tonopah is a dead dog deal there is no silver lining here nor will there ever be any mining IMO. It's a fantasy to think otherwise.
Most OTC shells are merely used to attract crappy financing in exchange for shares or preferreds.
I've heard enough of the alleged Mexican iron ore fantasy as well on this worn out topic and thread.
Maybe Asshley is down there with a Costco shovel taking dirt clods off the top and sending them to their "garage" for lab samples. Real mover and shaker I can see with my own eyes.
When's the next RS? LOL
Maybe they can put a malibu taco truck complete with Chihuahuas on the dash with a Fernando Valenzuela bobble head as well down there at the alleged mining work site in Mex and book some of those taco revenues into TNGL books.
Look I understand what you are trying to say about a few western companies trying to do some biz. But that's not going to rescue Gazprom.
It's a woefully mismanaged company that's owned by a corrupt weakling Putin insider that needs to steal from the Russian people coffers just to try and build the Siberian pipeline to China.
They are under serious capital constraints and it's not looking to good for them over the next 6-12 months let alone their stock value on the minor league OTC.
The Europeans and global governments are not happy with the Russians and it's not going to improve relations with the West over Putin putting a few troops and planes inside Syria.
Let's set the record straight not every oil and gas company in the western world is business with Putin.
He's only got another 6 months of good public support at home because when inflation starts popping up even more normal Russians they are not going to be happy with him.
Putin can only blame the Americans and the West for so long and he's used that BS line way too many times. Eventually that will catch up to him and when it does companies like GAZ aren't going to make it because they are paper tigers, broke, weaklings, propped up by Russian Govt.
We all know how that works right? Let's think about it communism by corrupt certain level people that live like kings like Putins net worth of $80 Billion plus that he robbed from the Russian people.
Or the Western World king of the markets and money?
The only reason Putin has $80 Billion plus is because Gorbachev took down the wall 25 years ago and Western Capital flowed in. Russia is a ghetto. Now we took away all of our billions in capital flows and slapped sanctions on the idiot. Putin got greedy along with oligarchs. While common Russians struggle. Now look at Gazprom low oil and gas prices and no more Western technology nor money...that's why Russia is a one trick pony that's easily controlled just like Gazprom.
Screw Gazprom and ahole oligarchs and corrupt Putin who owns it.
I'll continue my shorting but thanks.
There is not much upside to the stock in the near future on the OTC. Sanctions have bit them as well as low gas prices.
Tell me a real reason why someone would park their money here and say ok double it?
It's not going to happen. Last time this traded at 8 bucks was when it was sliding down the front side of a tsunami WAY WAY BACK in July Aug 2014 a year+ now over 365+ days and counting and has bottom feeding ever since other than a minor pop to $6 and then capitulation once again back down to low ball Susie.
Like I said they announce deals like a drunken liar sitting on a bar stool in Moscow. But how many actually happen maybe 9 times out of 10 they are just "pie in the sky" and it's obvious the entire worlds investment community agrees with my analysis and not yours. If they did this stock would be popping over $10 and heading north on these alleged fantastic deals.
Look at the PPS truth is in the stock price and that's a fact you can't dodge behind.
It wouldn't surprise me if they bloated their natural gas deliveries and forged that as well.
I don't trust a word that comes out of GAZ, Putin or anything Communist Russian.
That's why their stock trades for a mere pittance on MICEX and on the OTC right LOL? Yeah they are just real dynamos.
Look up at the scoreboard I've been shorting this and will continue to do so from the 30's. If I want to I guess I could stop shorting but why do that? It's to much fun shorting the poor Russian corrupt midget Putin while I drink my stoli.
Welcome to the Western World where we rule.
But go ahead and please state for the record your facts.
I'm squeezing back down with a shorty it went high...IMO to high from out in left field. Took profits and bet on going down.
My shorts been on for several months now. I'm happy. Guess I saw the peak in the 17's and dumped and waited for spell jumping back in on shorty the last 4 months.
Nothings negative. It's just the facts and the truth.
It very well maybe the largest gas transit system in the world.
But there are serious issues within GAZ.
#1 GAZ with Putin's backing can't use gas blackmail against EU anymore or threaten anyone with cutting them off.
They used that blackmail tactic one too many times. Enter LNG.
#2 China's main priority for gas business is with Turkmenistan's not Russia. China has invested $ heavily into that countries gas infrastructure and acquiring their gas. That's China's priority not GAZ nor Putin.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30131418
GAZ is late to the party along with Putin.
The sanctions have cut GAZ off at the knees with EU. They along with Rosneft have been locked out of technology that only the US and Western Countries have to unlock their potential in the Arctic or anywhere else.
Putin Knows it. GAZ CEO knows it. China Knows it. Obama damn sure knows it. EU Countries know it.
Who is GAZ going to turn to the Indians?
Those pipelines from E and W Siberia are mere photo ops.
E. Siberia pipe will only be built with Putin stealing money from Russian citizens and raiding already very thin and scarce state reserves. It's not going to happen either because without a contract in hand with the Chinese agreeing to pay for the higher 36% prices it's not going anywhere. What is GAZ and Putin going to do what are their options go ahead build it anyway and pray the Chinese agree to higher prices? That's kind of wishful thinking?
So you are either misinformed or dead wrong about sanctions not stopping GAZ.
W. Sibera is already developed but China doesn't need or want their gas from that area because ta daa they have E. Turkmenistans's area already.
This crappy fake news that people think is news is actual fluff misinformation being cranked out by a desperate company and a desperate crooked mafia midget dictator that's been boxed in by the EU and the West.
Even if Putin helps out and bails out GAZ in building the pipeline to Timbuktu they are what 5-7 years away of actually delivering gas and making any $. That's a long time with to revs and draining your company with no agreement in hand ya think?
Sure GAZ can cut deals and maybe afloat but they are no means an EXXON MOBIL or even Shell.
That's what happens when you screw around with the West. We yank your financing, cash, equity, investors, technology, markets all away. What is Russia and GAZ left with supplying gas to themselves poor Russian people?
Cut deals all they want-bottom line is they are screwed until they comply with Western demands of getting their butts out of Ukraine.
That's what happens when you thumb your nose up at the world, threaten Western countries with nuclear weapons, threaten to cut off gas to EU, suck for 10 years off Western tit of capital and get it yanked like a bad 2 year old with a temper tantrum.
Add in low gas and oil prices I would say this company is in deep trouble. That's why your falling for the Russian propaganda on these alleged Chinese deals which do not amount to a hill of beans.
That's why I have thrown big money at this and shorting it. Now that I laid down the cold hard FACTS AND REALITY FOR GAZ tell me in an a detailed response with "your facts" as to why GAZ is a great green long term play?
Because I am a part of the GO4 or "Gang of Four" and it usually doesn't to do well for people betting against us in the markets.
What do you think of mine and our takedown of the PPS on the OTC? I trade this for green on the MICEX. Here in the US it's all shorty LOL and I'm and we're not letting up either.
China is not interested in W. Siberian gas they have all they can handle or desire from like I said Turkmeninstan- China isn't interested in bankrolling the E. Siberian pipeline and foolishly agree to pay way to much for GAZ gas with or without Putin. EU isn't too interested all that much either there are growing alternatives.
These PR releases are nothing but bad propaganda designed to TRY and make it look like Putin has a friend in China. But that's about all it's ever going to be, a photo op.
Now that you know the real truth how do you look at Putin or GAZ now? It's pretty stupid isn't?
So when you say sanctions don't matter-you might want to look at the scoreboard because they do and always will.
That's why Putin is desperate for photo ops and trying to push the Chinese at these "fakey summits" to get china to agree to crap and their like whatever little man. The Chinese are not desperate but companies like GAZ and Putin are. It's obvious lady.
There are other articles out there that support exactly my viewpoints which are based on "factual information" would you like to be educated on those as well?
The only way that pipeline gets built are 2 things let me spell it out for you.
#1. If Putin's government finances it, which he ordered his ministers to take a look at doing that on Sept 1st.
#2 If China agrees to a lower rate that was negotiated 16 months ago. Fat chance on that happening.
If #2 doesn't happen Gazprom can issue all the PR's misinformation in the world because the deal that was inked 16 months ago those gas prices are now more than 30% lower.
Chinese banks will not fund it that's a fact and why would they? That'd be the stupidest move in the world and be on the hook for massive losses.
So if this gets built it's because Putin ordered his minister cronies to do it and with no lower agreement with the chinese in gas prices that's suicide politically for Putin and will not work. The lower gas prices are the margins that would mean their profit who would build a pipeline with that risk? If Putin does it, in essence he owns Gazprom. Good luck to him going broke and BK'ng the Russian people.
Sure they can build it because Putin will open up kremlin bank accounts. By doing so he cuts off already scarce money resources to other state sponsored partnerships and let me tell you something Putins going to be out on his ass in a coup. But they will lose every penny they ever put into it.
Read it and weep: China never gave them a dime of the prepaid $25 Billion for construction. It's a dead project and the Chinese have no further need into Xianjiang for more gas out of Gazprom's West Siberia fields that are ready. Russians haven't even been able to get the Chinese to agree to a lower gas price they agreed to 16 months ago.
Your drinking some serious kool aid.
Russia appears to be putting a brave face on its chances for a new gas deal with China as President Vladimir Putin prepares to visit Beijing this week.
Despite indications to the contrary, Russian officials have cited active engagement in talks with China on a western gas route to Xinjiang, as well as progress in building its first pipeline to the east under a contract valued at U.S. $400 billion (2.5 trillion yuan) last year.
Together, the two lines would eventually deliver 68 billion cubic meters (bcm) (2.4 trillion cubic feet) of gas annually to China, or 38 percent of the country's consumption of the cleaner-burning fuel in 2014.
But work on the eastern route had barely begun this year before it ran into financial trouble, pushing Russia's hopes for a second line further into the future.
Despite the challenges, Russia has continued to promote its prospects for another China gas deal.
Last month, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said agreements on a second gas route from the west could be ready for signing in time for Putin's trip on Sept. 3 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
"If it's ready, the visit will certainly be a good opportunity for concluding this transaction," Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on July 29, according to Interfax.
In May, Russia's Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) signed a memorandum of understanding on basic conditions for the western line, but negotiations on prices started only in the past month.
Last week, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller continued his push for a new contract at meetings with CNPC's chairman Wang Yilin and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli.
In a statement, Gazprom said negotiations "are steadily moving forward," but the daily Kommersant cited industry sources calling it "part of the information campaign."
Another preliminary accord
Analysts say Putin's meeting with President Xi Jinping is unlikely to produce anything more than another preliminary accord, in part because of troubles with the contract for the eastern line to supply China's industrialized northeast.
On Aug. 21, a Chinese official dampened hopes for a contract on the western line at the Xi-Putin meeting. A signing in September "is not obligatory, if one takes into account the regularity of the two leaders' meetings," said Ling Ji, Ministry of Commerce director for Eurasian affairs.
Ling instead stressed the importance of implementing the contract for the eastern route, noting that the plunge in oil prices had complicated negotiations "to a considerable degree," Interfax reported.
At a press conference in Beijing last week, Russian Ambassador Andrei Denisov voiced confidence that a new gas deal would be signed "at the last minute" along with some 20 other agreements.
The western line through Russia's mountainous Altai region would add 30 bcm of supplies annually to the 38 bcm already promised from the east.
While the Altai route has been a priority for Russia because of its ready resources in West Siberia, China has no need for more gas in remote Xinjiang.
Edward Chow, senior fellow for energy and national security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said preliminary agreements mean little to the Chinese side despite their apparent importance to Russia, as long as problems with the eastern route persist.
"They're mainly being polite when the Russians bring up the western route," Chow said. "It doesn't mean that they're sincerely and earnestly interested in the western route. Those are two different things."
Analysts say conditions affecting Russia and the gas market have changed dramatically since the eastern pipeline deal was signed in May 2014.
"The world has completely flipped since then," Chow said.
At the time, Russian reports estimated that the starting price for gas under the 30-year contract would be U.S. $350 (2,241 yuan per thousand cubic meters [mcm]), largely in line with Gazprom's export prices for Europe.
Since then, oil-linked gas prices have plunged, putting pressure on Russia to renegotiate the contract.
Earlier this month, Gazprom lowered its forecast for this year's average export price to U.S. $235-242 (1,505-1,550 yuan) per mcm, over 30 percent below China's presumed starting price last year.
On Aug. 10, the London-based Financial Times reported that Gazprom had not negotiated a lower limit for price adjustments in case of a prolonged slump in the oil market, suggesting that gas rates could fall as low as $175 (1,120 yuan) per mcm.
That could leave Gazprom with huge losses on the eastern pipeline, known as the Power of Siberia project, which Putin estimated would cost U.S. $55 billion (352.2 billion yuan) for infrastructure on Russian territory.
An expected prepayment of U.S. $25 billion (160 billion yuan) from China to finance Russia's construction never materialized, leaving Gazprom with few options at a time when Western sanctions over Ukraine have squeezed Russian finances.
Unwilling to bear risks
It is unclear whether China has delayed financing until Gazprom lowers its prices, but analysts believe China's banks have been unwilling to bear Russian risks in any case.
"I think the eastern pipeline's in some trouble," said Mikkal Herberg, energy security research director at the Seattle-based National Bureau of Asian Research. Herberg cited reports that some of the limited work on the project has already stopped.
A second pipeline project may only add to Russia's cost burdens.
"It's hard for me to believe they would sign anything that would be called a contract for the western pipeline," Herberg said.
The launch of the 3,247-kilometer (2,017-mile) Power of Siberia pipeline, initially expected under the contract by end-2018, has been pushed back by six months, the Russian daily Vedomosti reported.
An Interfax report suggested that deliveries might not start until mid-2021, "depending on whether the infrastructure is ready."
Although Gazprom denies it has sought state funding for the Power of Siberia project, Putin has ordered the government to complete a plan by Sept. 1 to finance the costs.
Chow said there is still value in the ambitious project, which would open East Siberia for development, but state resources to cover losses are in short supply.
"Of course, the government can subsidize economically sub-optimal projects, but there's a limit on what they can subsidize," he said. "They can't do everything they want to do."
Western sanctions and Russia's recession have spurred competition among oil companies and major industries for state funds that have been stretched thin.
China's economic slowdown has also weakened the country's gas demand growth, cutting deep into forecasts that underpinned Russia's grand plans.
After years of double-digit growth rates, China's gas consumption rose by only 2.1 percent in the first half of the year, according to official figures.
"Everything suggests slowing down fairly dramatically from what was expected," Herberg said. "They're having trouble marketing gas at the price they need to justify importing gas."
Last week, Miller floated a new option, offering to boost gas supplies in the east with a pipeline from Russia's Sakhalin Island projects in the Far East.
The latest scheme follows the failure of Russian plans to build costly new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants for the resources, now that world markets are awash with LNG supplies.
The heavy investments that China has already made in resources and pipelines from Central Asia are also likely to make imports from Turkmenistan a priority over Russian gas, but both sources may face demands to cut prices if oil continues to sink.
Despite the many challenges for Russia on the existing contract for the eastern project, it is expected to paper the way for Putin's visit with another preliminary accord for the western line, if only to send a message to the European market that it can sell its gas to China instead.
But without major price concessions or a pickup in demand, Gazprom could be years away from signing a new contract.
“I think it's going to be a meaningless agreement," Chow said.
Actually to me it does matter. Sometimes you have to cook a few turkeys in politics before you get the right turkey that comes along with a brain and understands what needs to be done to right their country.
Politics has everything to do with how a country does economically and thus the boomerang effects markets.
I'm not going to say hopefully they turn it around. Honestly I do not care if they do or not I have no skin in their game nor am I a Greek.
I'm just merely a bystander riding on the metro with a WSJ covering up my face that invests.
Knowing the history of Greek politics and their run ins and promises to the EU in exchange for previous bailouts without reforming and basically lying to receive billions in aid. I knew that wasn't going to work this time around and EU wasn't going to cut any deals.
So I put history + knowledge + money + intuition into this situation and knew I was going to be right.
It paid off like I knew it would and there was never going to be any EU blinking on this one.
It's not the first time I've been right at geo-political global countries politics and effects of boomerangs. I've been doing this for 35 years successfully I might add.
You say it doesn't matter I respectfully disagree.
The right party will get elected here eventually one would like to think someday.
I'm already moving into Iranian investments because I know the Western Sanctions are being removed.
Russia I've been all that little St. Petersburg Mafia Midget for over a year now and that includes the MICEX.
China yup had a hand in moving fat faced Xi down as well and trust me on this...he's got all kinds of issues that Xi will never be able to fix. I'm shorting everything China as well across the globe amongst other idiots that run their countries into the dirt.
I'm happy to oblige.
You can always move to Greece. Take a good look at what a nut job party did to their country.
Syriza = Tea party.
I'm no fan of any Democrat.
But, since Obama's been elected.
#1 Bull stock market
#2 Dollar gained strength
#3 Retracted from Iraq and Afghanistan.
#4 Oil bulled out now retracted.
#5 Paying off some deficit so they say-doubtful.
But there are many screw-ups as well.
#1 Benghazi cover up killing of US Ambassador
#2 Obama stoked race tensions personally with bias
#3 White cops getting shot.
#4 Abdicated America's role in free world.
#5 Threatened Syria over using chemical weapons didn't back it up
#6 Cash for clunkers
#7 Cash for appliances
#8 Didn't stop china from building new islands in SE Asia
#9 Every federal employee was hacked by China
#10 Ed "the traitor" Snowden turn coated to Putin
#11 Illegal immigrants flooded borders in record numbers
#12 Gave Iran Nukes in 10 years and sanctions lifted in 4-5 months
#13 Wants to make 14 million illegals US Citizens
#14 Lied to gays and US people to get elected
#15 Obama Care
#16 China fired a submarine ballistic missle 15 miles off LA
#17 Terrible job creator and record
#18 Hired Hillary Clinton Sec of State
#19 Did not throw the book at General Petraeus
#20 Secret Service Columbia prostitutes scandal
#21 Secret Service guards drunk crashing into white house gate
#22 Fence jumper gets inside White House Secret Service Screwup
#23 IRS targeting of Americans Lois Lerner scandal tea party
#24 IRS coverup of Lois Lerner
#25 Hillary Clinton cover up of using private server as Sec of St
#26 Holder coverup of gunwalking across Mexico border
The list goes on and on.
The tea party even though their beliefs are not shared commonly by all americans at their core-but are technically correct, they would screw this country up just like Syriza did with their BS.
New policies for fiscal responsibility and more importantly real government transparency and follow the framework of the US Constitution is what needs to occur with the next US administration.
Central bank efforts shoring up their own currency and it took some time for the RUB and Western sanctions to correlate.
It could rise and fall some more.
The Chinese $400 Bill deal is a pipe dream and a smokestack PR laying down way to much BS.
In long run by being photographed Xi and Putin together and making so much of something that will never occur will only make them look dumber than they already are.
It was nothing more than a photo op. Two wannabes trying to be somebodies is way I look at it.
If China is so big and bad then why have they devalued their currency? They've been running their mouths off for 8 years in how the world should add Yuan to reserve currency status. This latest move shows they are unstable as we always knew.
They just set their country back 20+ years in how the world views them. Intervening in their stock market crash is another example of how 3rd world they are.
They have bubbles in their stock market, real estate market and they overpaid for oil and gas assets around the globe over the last 10 years in their stupid binge buying. Just like the Japs did in the 80's now look at them as well.
China may have over 1 billion+ people but their govt is communist and their form of capitalism inside communism bubble just proved to not work.
Their markets are not internally developed with respect to penetration and development. They are 50 years behind us to that regard for consumption. They are an export driven country and that's been hurting them for over 8 years since the meltdown shoved US consumers under the table.
Don't believe what I say? Take a look at the ghost factories on the coastline of china that have been mothballed because the workers finally said enough and started striking 6 years ago for higher wages. So the Chinese govt made rail lines into the interior of China where they are now exploiting the last bastions of cheap labor with peasants. When they rebel in the next 10+ years what will be chinas play then? That's why china has lost it's edge and more companies are coming back to US and leaving China to manufacture their goods here. It's a trickle but nonetheless does not get mainstream US media attention.
If Syriza loses power Greek stocks will come back. Politically and financially this nutjob whacko party destroyed their country.
Imagine if the tea party won the US presidency and had majorities in both Congress and House?
That's what happened to Greece it's just they don't realize it...yet.
But they will down the road when left center takes over and the Greek markets start to heal.
$1.90 that's an interesting concept.
I hope Tsipras runs again LOL God he made me a ton of money.
BP has a 20% stake in Rosneft. The Putin mafia owns the rest.
Defunding projects is part political and part falling oil prices.
The ruble has strengthened recently amid falling prices.
It's being propped up.
I trade this on the MICEX and GAZ it's cheaper but doesn't run as high than the listing on the OTC. American markets much more transparent and more $ drives it higher on OTC rather than MICEX. However I do trade this on MICEX on ups and downs smaller gains but I still make $. OTC listing has been sliding which is great for a shorty. :)
So I trade on both.
BTW- BP owns a 20% stake in Rosneft. Make no mistake the defunding of projects is a direct shot at BP to devalue their interest by the little midget St. Petersburg mafia man Putin. The Chinese are behind the defunding trying to push Western British aligned BP out of Rosneft.
9 times out of 10 anything Rosneft or Gazprom inks with anyone doesn't come to fruition with actual deals. Matter of fact they sign them and they then turn the deals 12+ months later into a letter of understanding which is more symbolic rather than an actual contract of execution.
Basically it's amateur hour PR from two wannabee Communist countries to show they are militarily aligned now and economically allegedly. The smoke and mirrors behind it is China is playing Putin. Putin has no where to turn to he boxed himself in financially like the idiot that he is. The only reason their O & G sector rose in Russia the last 10 years is because of American know how with technology and access to $. Western countries sanctioned them and now what they are doing the only thing they can do...run for the hills to China. Good luck with that asine move.
If China IS such a powerful country and trading partner to Russia then why is their O & G sector in so much trouble along with a falling Ruble? China lacks the American technology, experience and $ to help Putin.
They are both paper tigers.
Non-binding basically they could come out and say hey it's a 1 trillion dollar Chinese oil deal but in end nothing happens it's hot air and the US brain trusts knows the real truth of it and reality of any project they say they are doing is 9 times out of 10 hot air and malarkey.
Out of the oil rhetoric that's coming out of Moscow and Beijing the only real thing that will probably come out of all it will be the recent East Siberian pipeline (much smaller $30 bil) than West Siberian ($400 Bill pipe dream) that will connect to the Eastern Industrial Centers in China and that's it.
Traded on OTC has it's disadvantages for GAZ. However, since it is an American based exchange when there is a perception of positive sentiment it rises.
On the Russian MICEX GAZ doesn't move to the upside as much as being traded on the OTC.
However, I do trade on both for GAZ and I have advantages on each one.
The OTC has been a short for me the last year MOL.
GAZ I'm in and out trading on MICEX for small .20+ gains.
History shows: 9 out of 10 deals Gazprom inks do not go through ever.
The West Siberian $400 Bill deal will NEVER HAPPEN.
The NEW East Siberian deal (smaller) PROBABLY WILL BE BUILT.
The West Siberian has been put off til 16' it's not a contract but an inked understanding nothing more.
West Siberian is a pipe dream- it was more for propaganda to say to the EU and the USA hey look at our alignment...to make it look they have a solid relationship.
Which it's not even close to being one.
I'm going to wield them in a fashion that will try to stop the malarkey with HL. That's all I can say.
Thanks btw.
I'm paying a little more attention to this company now JJ.
It's practically worthless in stock value.
What a stinky turkey this turned out to be is right.
But hey ya know we can't win all the time.
It's an OTC.
Lesson learned.
I really thought they had potential.
Who knows though they could always pull a rabbit out a hat if they survive this decline and get rid of the choking financing.
I can't stand greed and financial corporations trying to get up on people who are just trying to invest their hard earned money to make a better life for them or their families.
I see it in the markets we all do everyday cork.
I've watched for 35+ years here day after day week after week year after year of what these fools do or think they are doing.
No more will I stand on the sidelines here.
It's time to start using the shares in a positive manner that generates money.
Everything leads to metals is what my grandfather told me who was born in 1898. People can chase their tails between the legs around the world chasing this company or that one. End of day he said the buck stops and starts with metals because of it's unique and important connection to investors and markets.
He told me that if listened to him he would teach me and tell me why. I was 7 years old.
He was a very wise respected man in financial circles.
Everything I have is because of him.
You would never know he was wealthy beyond anyones dreams nor owned at the time the 3rd largest brokerage house not on Wall St but the world.
I never got a dime from him or the estate when both grandparents passed and to be truthful I would never haven't accepted anyway had they done that. What he gave me was his recipe. His kindness for others. His generosity was legendary in philanthropic circles even though no one for sure knew it was him and my grandmother that gave it away-they suspected all along.
Which is why I have chose to do the same the last 15 years. Helping others.
By the time I was a senior in high school I was on my way already.
That's part of my story. Self made.
Have a great day and a better Labor Day.
Your friend, Mav.
Cork you better believe I am buddy. If I threw my full weight 200% into this I would cause them some serious issues. I've sat back watched them manipulate HL for 35+ years. No more.
For them it will be like going to the hoop and getting their legs undercut everytime when they leave the ground with their feet up in the air exposed.
I know all their tricks of using analysts to downgrade driving pps down...problem for them will be my options and naked shorting when they think it's running...here comes my undercut. OOOpsy.
Boom like a Rocky Marciano sledgehammer. Watch then flinch on your L2.
When it's time to run green that should be some fun as well.
I covered early this am let this dog rise and pumped it out at the dump high at 32.75...and mowed the grass back down.
Where you at Mr OTC BP's going to $15? Funny isn't how I allowed it to rise and brought it back down today.
Still want to throw your marbles into the ring with me?
So far the take today alone is $1.05 per share and times that by 300,000 shares. I have another 200,000 sitting that I'm not playing with at the moment.
Well I don't think you don't have any real ability to yank this down to $15 but I know some people that can including yours truly.
It's amazing what a group of 4 smart wealthy investors can do to a company that's worth billions when they act in unison.
We're the GO4...or Gang of Four.
That's why you play both exchanges like me :)
Do you think they will put Kern wells and leases up for sale and dump it and try to move back into Lousiana with deeper sweeter API's?
What are their options?
IMO I'd like to see several things happen.
#1 Try to use a MM-good luck now though.
#2 Sell Kern and move back into Southern US with better API.
#3 Get bought out by larger O&G that trades give us shares.
#4 Management change and get fresh eyes and new direction?
The stock value is pretty pathetic...once again.
Where is the value and upside for common shareholders?
65 wells+ was projected for Kern 5+ years ago...if this was The Apprentice Donald trump would have said "Your Fired."
Good ole Eric Moe took the reins and he ballooned the share count didn't he ole Foxy?
I'd rather they go back to Lousiana and move their stock PPS back up with MM's.
How did they go from the Southern US selling off deep productive wells to where they are now?
By not using MM's quite possible DBRM's strategy or thinking is that they as a company and it's corp. officers have no use for Daybreak. But as a shareholder Fox 52 I think both of us would disagree with that like others. I've always stated here from the beginning that position has never changed and never will that it would be useful if they did. How do they as a company raise better quality capital and lending terms if their stock pps and market cap is pitiful?
Were they afraid they would lose control if they did use MM's? All they had to was give a small % out and work with them IMHO.
Time is what killed this took too way to long.
That's why Cork after 35+ years of holding I am now playing the counter screw you MM game.
I'm putting the shorty on this for some days now and when the MM's they think I'm going North I'm going South.
Your barking up the wrong tree and after that fact. I dumped and sold when it spiked a few days ago already. Now I'm shorting. That's why I netted after taxes $575,000 in just a few days.
I'm multi-millions on short now...10,000 miles ahead of you buddy.
When it drops I'm one of the peop with the $ making that happen.
When I let it up for air- you'll know 20 minutes after the fact.
Naked short as a jaybird works for me.